Hamish’s Scottish Quiz

Thanks to all who emailed me to say how well or badly they did in last week’s quiz. This week’s questions are:

1. Who is the only MSP in the Alba Party?

2. In 1868 at Prestwick, Young Tom Morris was the first golfer to record what feat in an Open Championship?

3. What was Scotland’s largest coal-fired power station until it closed in 2016?

4. Who will Scotland’s men’s football team play in their last warm-up match before Euro 2024?

5. Culross Palace in Fife, pictured, was a merchant’s house. Name the two buildings in Fife which were royal palaces?

6. Which Scottish jockey rode the late Queen’s horse Dunfermline to victory in the 1977 Oaks and St Leger?

7. Ploughman David McClean took custody of which top Nazi near Eaglesham in May, 1941?

8. The Borestone is a feature on which presumed battlefield?

9. Rhinns or rinns are geographical features around Scotland. Derived from Gaelic, what does the word mean?

10. The beautifully sculptured Monk’s Stone found on the Isle of Burra in Shetland is now in which museum?

11. Inverpolly National Nature Reserve (NNR) was once the second largest such reserve in Britain. Is that true or false?

12. What was the maiden name of Robert Burns’s wife Jean? 13. Which late actor played Donald Stewart in the TV series Benidorm?

14. James Bridie’s 1930 play The Anatomist is about which medical figure from the Burke and Hare story?

15. Barr & Stroud in Glasgow exclusively provided which optical devices to the Royal Navy for many years?

16. Which archipelago is larger in land area – Orkney or Shetland?

17. The poet Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn (1928-1998) is usually better known by which name in English?

18. Born in Edinburgh in 1848, Randall Thomas Davidson reached what high position in the Church of England?

19. In the names of various Scottish places, what does “shiels” mean?

20. Long since disused for religious purposes, the Triple Kirks were a feature of which city?